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Cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma with short-run players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper studies cooperative behavior in communities with a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The introduction of a short-run player in the population breaks ...
Who runs against the incumbent? Candidate entry decisions
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper offers an explanation for the common observation that political incumbents not only frequently win reelection, but often face weak competition or no competition at all when running for reelection. I explain this ...
Cooperation among strangers in the presence of defectors: an experimental study
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
Does the rotten apple spoils his companions? This is the question we
analyze in the context of a repeated population game with behavioral types.
Our experimental results show that the inclusion of a non-cooperative
player ...
Labels for misbehavior in a population with short-run players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
This paper studies how an information mechanism that labels defectors can
sustain cooperative behavior in communities containing a subset of short-run
players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner's ...